Badvertising

Andrew Simms is the author of many books including The New Economics, Ecological Debt, Tescopoly and Cancel the Apocalypse and Economics: A Crash Course. He co-founded the New Weather Institute and coordinates the Rapid Transition Alliance. He is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF), and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and BBC. He co-founded the Green New Deal group in 2007, the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org that ran until 2017, and devised Earth Overshoot Day. Leo Murray co-founded Plane Stupid, where he played a central role in strategic planning and communication for three years from 2006. He also designed and co-founded the climate change campaigning organisation Possible in 2009, where he is currently director of innovation. Murray is the brains behind the Frequent Flyer Levy, and strategy lead for the Rapid Transition Taskforce. He was previously a part-time political advisor on the transition to a sustainable economy to Labour's Shadow Minister for Sustainable Economics, Clive Lewis MP.

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction: Advertising and the Insidious Rise of Brain Pollution

1. Badvertising, Priming, Propaganda and Surveillance Advertising

2. How Advertising Increases Consumption

3. How We Banned Tobacco Advertising

4. Sports Advertising and Sponsorship: The Great Pollution Own Goal

5. How Big Car Persuaded Us to Buy Big Cars

6. How Airlines Took Us For a Ride

7. Why Self-Regulation Isn’t Working

8. A World Without Advertising

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index